Program – Module 6 (Phase 2)

Module 6

16TH, 17TH AND 18TH JUNE 2023

MAC Phase 2 is an exclusive stage of our program that is available only to those who completed the five first modules and passed the evaluations.

the Phase 2 is for MAC Certified Instructors only.

Professional development and perception of the classroom

zouk teacher

Understand and analyze what it is to become a professional zouk teacher.

Characterizes

List what characterizes a zouk teacher must have, taking into account what he should be, know and do.

acting in the zouk scene

Recognize the possibilities of acting whitin the zouk market (opportunities).

class plan in four stages

Know and understand the 4 pillars of planning a lesson.

mentality and successful behaviors

Know and understand Oito Tempos Model of focus and mentality (strategy).

teachers and dancers

Cristovão & Carolina

saturday 11:00am to 1:00pm

:: Premises of Didactic Construction
– Goals
– Content
– Method
– Assessment
– Lesson plan
– Construction

sunday11:00am and 2:00pm

:: Types of classes and their approaches (Together)
– Regular Group Class – Cristovão and Carol
– Congress Class – Cristovão and Carol
– Private Lesson – Sheila

teacher and dancer

sheila santos

saturday 2:00pm to 4:00pm

:: Class Stages
– Preparation
– Teaching
– Revision
– Training
– Junction

SUNDAY11:00AM AND 2:00PM

teachers and dancers

Alex & Patrycja

saturday 4:00pm to 7:00pm

Class program from zero to 1 year and aspects of teaching.

sunday 4:00pm to 6:00pm

Class program from zero to 1 year and aspects of teaching.

sheila santos

Graduated in Dance and Post-Graduated in Partner Dances, a course that she became parte of the group of teachers in the following year. She also taught the post-graduation course “Ballroom Dance and Gymnastics” at IDEAU College. Before dedicating herself to partner dances, she worked as a dancer, choreographer, and solo dance teacher in several companies, schools, and social projects.

In Joinville, she was part of the selection team for new students of the Bolshoi School in Brazil and was assistant artistic director for the Gala Night of the Rússia Bolshoi Theater Company. She contributed to the foundation of Oito Tempos Dança de Salão, today one of the most important school franchises in Brazil. She was the owner, teacher, and responsible for the team of the Curitiba unit until 2016.

With knowledge in the main partner dances studied in Brazil, she is a guest teacher at important festivals, congresses and dance cruises in Brazil and Europe. For more than 10 years, she has participated in the training of professionals in Brazil and Europe through Training Courses and also with individual professional consulting.

As an author, she participated in the book “Tango and Samba – A meeting of two cultures”, talking about the relationship between pairs in these dance genres.

Currently, she develops her work in São Paulo/SP, but with intense performance in the national, international and on line partner dance market, both in its social practice and its artistic side. Idealizer of the Project Mulher que Dança (Woman who Dances), today one of the biggest communities of ballroom dance women, she is also relevant for her studies of the new dance dialogues (Relationships of Conducting Response in Ballroom Dance).

Carolina castro

Graduated as dancer in Classical Ballet in the year of 1997, was component of dance groups in different genres: Cia Line of classic ballet, Vindança of folkloric dance and Group of Laces of contemporary hall dance.

Currently co-owner of a unit of Oito Tempos School of Dance in Porto Alegre, acting as manager and teacher.

Until 2010 she participated in events, festivals and dance shows, acting as a classical dancer and folklore, such as Bento in Dance, Ballet Gala, International Folklore Festival of Porto Alegre, among others. In 2012 attended, in SPEI School at Curitiba – PR, to a Course for Teachers of Social Dance training, with emphasis on Didactics and Methodology. In 2013 attended, in the same SPEI School at Curitiba – PR, to a Course for Teachers of Social Dance training, with emphasis on the dance itself in its various genres. He was a jury, teacher and performed artistic performances in the most diverse dance festivals in Brazil, such as: Dançando a Bordo, Baila Floripa, Baila Costão, Premio Desterro, amongst others.

cristovão christianis

Teacher of Social Dance since 1993, was a member of the Jaime Arôxa Dance Company in Rio de Janeiro for 13 years, participating in the main dance congresses and festivals in the country representing this school. Currently co-owner, acting as the technical director of Oito Tempos Dança de Salão, the reference company in couple dance in Brazil, now with fifteen units, spreaded amongst the states of Paraná, São Paulo, Mato Grosso and Rio Grande do Sul.

Former teacher of Post-Graduation in Dance Theory and Movement, with emphasis on Social Dance from FAMEC – Metropolitan College of Curitiba, now coordinates the training course for social dance teachers (CCDS), certified by FSG/Caxias do Sul – Faculdade da Serra Gaúcha and the Faculdade Camões/Curitiba.

He wrote, between 2011 and 2015, a column in the digital magazine, Dança em Pauta, on the subject of Dance and Education, an area where for some years he has been engaged in research on effective methods and didactics for teaching several social dance genres.

He is also co-author of the books 200 anos de Dança de Salão no Brasil Vol.1 and 2 and Tango e Samba, Um Encontro de Duas Culturas. Champion of the Brazilian Tango Championship, in the Escenario category and represented Brazil in the world rhythm championship, which took place in Buenos Aires in August 2010.

He was a jury, teacher and performed artistic performances in the most diverse dance festivals in Brazil, such as: Dançando a Bordo, Baila Floripa, Baila Costão, Premio Desterro, amongst others.